Empathy is not charity

Posted September 20, 2017 11:16 pm by Hannah Russo

The saint is not empathic; he is charitable, which means that he always wills the ultimate good of his neighbor. Because the saint’s emotions are ordered to faith and to reason, he is neither particularly manipulable nor unduly afraid of suffering, his own or anyone else’s.
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